It may officially be November, but that doesn't mean we're safe from the tragedy that is terrible Halloween costumes. This time, it's this crazy racist "Pashtun Papa Islamic Costume." It's a perfect ending to a banner year for straight up asinine-disguised-as-topical costumes.

As a South Asian with brown skin, I have been mistaken for plenty of other girls of a variety of different ethnicities who look absolutely nothing like me, though I am sure they are great (despite their not being me). So I suppose it's just as comforting as it is incredibly frustrating to know that shit happens to…

Yesterday, Russian Tennis Federation President Shamil Tarpischev was fined $25,000 and suspended for one year by the Women's Tennis Association Tour after making some incredibly stupid and offensive comments about Serena and Venus Williams. Serena has commended the WTA's response.

This weekend, hundreds of Harvard students and affiliates received a terrifyingly ominous email, threatening to carryout a mass shooting at the Ivy League school and "kill you individually." But now it looks like the sender has backtracked, apologizing for the email and blaming a family member for the email.

Yet again, YET AGAIN, police officers have demonstrated a penchant for the world's worst cocktail of racism and aggression, having briefly taken into custody a black woman they assumed was a prostitute. Why, you ask? Because she was publicly displaying affection with a white man, who in reality is her partner. What…

Barneys has finally made amends with those black people it accused of being too poor to shop at their store last fall. How? By paying them $525,000 and hiring an anti-racism consultant to help them into 2014 where folks of color can afford stuff. I call bullshit.

The West View News, (The Voice of the West Village) has published an editorial in response to Eric Cantor's upset at the hands of David Brat. In a rather run-of-the-mill piece about the increasing transparency of racism in right wing politics, the author decided to spice things up by ironically titling his piece,…

A Virginia woman is understandably upset after learning that someone skimmed a photo of her children from her Instagram account, slapped a little meme text on it, and posted it to his own Instragram account.